If Obama guts NASA, the Open Luna Foundation looks bright
Feb 05, 2010, 23:32 (2 Talkback[s])
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"As part of the administration’s new 3.8 trillion
budget (that is with a T, not a B guys. Really big number.), a
radical change in NASA’s mission is proposed. If President
Obama has his way, NASA will stop being the operator and builder of
our space vehicles and program. The US space program will be placed
in the hands of private industry. The government will try to steer
the private space industry with grants and technology development
projects. This could be a great environment and opportunity for an
open source space program.
"Of course this is a huge departure for the NASA we have known.
For the past 50 years NASA has been the designer, builder and
operator of our space program. The space race and the race to the
Moon were national goals to strive for. In later years,
NASA’s mission became more cooperative with other world
powers in projects such as the International Space Station and
missions to the planets. Then President George W. Bush announced a
return to the Moon by 2020. Many experts said it was pie in the sky
and would never happen in that time frame, but nevertheless we
spent almost 9 billion dollars to date on this mission. Now if the
Obama administration has their way we are scrapping it. As a child
of the Apollo program, I am dismayed that we can’t even come
close to accomplishing something that we were able to do 40 years
ago. Have we fallen that far?"
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